Captures issue status (#1153-#1161), the built compute spine, key
facts/gotchas (hand-built 000490 fixture, calculator entry, worktree-vs-main
import trap, test/commit conventions), and the two gates (parser fix -> wire
Elmhurst cascade pins; #1157 persist-Plan HITL schema review). For picking
the work back up in a fresh session.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
